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9 Best Articles in 2021
VICE
Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian FirmwareVICE
~11 min read · From 2017 · A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking.
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Gizmodo
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever MetGizmodo
9 min read · From 2017 · In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.
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The Guardian
Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber surveillance weaponThe Guardian
9 min read · Jul 18th · Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests
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The Atlantic
China Is the First Surveillance SuperpowerThe Atlantic
20+ min read · 2020-07-29 · Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
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The New York Times
What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go?The New York Times
20+ min read · Mar 18th · When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.
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The more society-changing aspect of facial recognition in the United States may be how private companies deploy it.  And imagine what you would do with a face-identifying app on your phone: a Shazam for people. You would never forget someone’s name at a party again.
And anonymity could be eradicated in day-to-day life.
The screen filled with a grid of photos of the younger Abrams from around the web, with the source of each identified in tiny type under the photo.
Fast Company
Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide WebFast Company
5 min read · From 2018 · With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.
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Guardian Tech
Internet privacy: the apps that protect you from your appsGuardian Tech
8 min read · 2020-02-16 · Worried about the data collected about you? A new generation of startups is making apps to put your privacy settings straight
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signal.org
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show yousignal.org
1 min read · May 4th · Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility…
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Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data.
We created a multi-variant targeted ad designed to show you the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to. The ad would simply display some of the information collected about the viewer which the advertising platform uses. Facebook was not into that idea.
Facebook’s world, the only acceptable usage is to hide what you’re doing from your audience.
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How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hourmedium.freecodecamp.com
5 min read · From 2016 · “Only the paranoid survive.” — Andy Grove
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Zuckerberg to Be Added to Facebook Privacy Suit
The New York Times
Privacy fears as schools use facial recognition to speed up lunch queue
The Guardian
The crypto industry royally screwed up privacy
Cointelegraph
Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
The Guardian
Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online
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Which browsers are best for privacy?
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Which browsers are best for privacy?privacytests.org
Oct 13th · An open-source privacy audit of popular web browsers.
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WIRED UK
We need to talk about Apple’s surveillance empireWIRED UK
3 min read · Oct 11th · Apple has taken a public stand on privacy, curtailing data abuses by apps and declaring it doesn’t exploit its users’ information. But it has also created comprehensive new ways to track us
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WIRED
Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in PhotosWIRED
3 min read · Oct 4th · In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance.
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CLEARVIEW AI HAS stoked controversy by scraping the web for photos and applying facial recognition to give police and others an unprecedented ability to peer into our lives.
Clearview has now collected more than 10 billion images from across the web—more than three times as many as has been previously reported.
“Without careful control over the data set and training process I would expect a plethora of unintended bias to creep in.”
Guardian Tech
Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself onlineGuardian Tech
~18 min read · Oct 14th · The long read: Edwin Robbe had a troubled life, but found excitement and purpose by joining an audacious community of hackers. Then the real world caught up with his online activities
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The Guardian
‘Dystopian world’: Singapore patrol robots stoke fears of surveillance stateThe Guardian
2 min read · Oct 6th · Trial of robots to police ‘undesirable’ behaviour such as smoking or breaching social-distancing rules
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getpocket.com
How to Navigate Kids’ Digital Privacygetpocket.com
1 min read · Oct 6th · What to know about the security of connected devices, and how to steer kids toward the best digital practices.
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The New York Times
Zuckerberg to Be Added to Facebook Privacy SuitThe New York Times
2 min read · Oct 20th · The District of Columbia case, which grew out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, could expose the chief executive to financial and other penalties.
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Fast Company
Bye Google: 7 privacy-first search engines everyone should tryFast Company
7 min read · Sep 29th · Here’s your ultimate guide to searching the web without having a tech giant looking over your shoulder.
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The Markup
Help Us Find the Apps That Sell Your LocationThe Markup
3 min read · Oct 7th · Send us screenshots or share your knowledge of the location data industry
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Mashable
Privacy experts aren't thrilled by Amazon's rolling surveillance robotMashable
4 min read · Sep 28th · Amazon's Astro just arrived, and it's not making any friends.
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